Biratnagar, Aug. 5 -- Despite the active presence of more than half a dozen non-governmental organisations working against human trafficking and girl trafficking along the eastern border of Nepal, a criminal network has managed to smuggle young Nepali women into India.

The recent arrest of seven young women and two men at the Panitanki border point in India has again exposed how traffickers are successfully hoodwinking border surveillance and exploiting legal loopholes to send Nepali women to Hong Kong using fraudulent Indian documents.

On Friday, seven women aged between 16 and 21, along with two men, crossed the Mechi river and entered India through the Kakadbhitta-Panitanki crossing. They escaped the attention of Nepali Police as wel...